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[–] 0x0 57 points 2 months ago (7 children)

If it's free, then why are we paying for it?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I can hear ypu americanness from behind the screen darling.

Free means freedom not "no payments" it takes huge money to develop and maintain software and infrastructures like these. So they need funding to survive.

[–] 0x0 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I was writing that in Trump's voice. I am an American who loves and contributes to open-source :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Plenty of people who (I assume) are smarter than Trump don't understand that FOSS refers to freedom, not price. It's not a very good term and I don't like how widely used it is now.

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